Mango & Tapioca Pearls Dessert (Happy Australia Day)

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

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Yesterday was Australia Day that falls on 26 January every year. It’s an official national public holiday for celebrations. Many friends of mine will make use of this opportunity to travel, or stay at home doing some gardening. For me, I like to hide myself in some cool places and enjoy some refreshing, cold drinks or chilled desserts as we are still in hot summer here.



This Mango and Tapioca Pearls Dessert was made with an Australian mango in season. It’s quite large, about 510 grams, juicy and sweet. I cooked some tapioca pearls to go with it. The texture of this dessert was like something between drink and pudding. We call it “露” in Chinese, roughly translated as “chilled dessert”. Hong Kong people like to use all kinds of fruit to make chilled dessert, including water melons, rock melons, lychees, all those favourite fruits in summer…Mango is the most popular choice in chilled dessert, I guess. When serving, you can also mix in some milk or coconut milk to add more flavours.

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